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Question: Dear Luise: I recently read the question Betty W. wrote to you about her interfering mother-in-law who objected to her parenting skills. My mother-in-law is a schoolteacher, too. We live about 3,000 miles apart, so she comes in the summer and stays with our kids. It’s a great plan because she gets to have [...]

Question: Hi Luise: I don’t have much of an idea how to interact with an angry person. I’ve never been taught how to do that, and yet the situation comes up from time to time. Do you have any suggestions about how to approach this problem? Tim Answer: Dear Tim: I think this is a [...]

Question: Dear Luise: A former work acquaintance of my husband’s and his wife are staying with us. They live in another state where we lived, too, before we retired. When we go down there, they do not invite us to stay with them. They offered to pay for half the food and then they bought [...]

Question: Dear Luise: I know this may sound trivial but to all of us, it isn’t. I live in a large apartment complex for Seniors. We are allowed to have pets if we keep them on a leash, pick up after them and they don’t cause any problems for our neighbors. Pets not leash-trained must [...]

Question: Dear Luise: A friend of mine visited me several months ago when we started having a meeting at my place. I told her, and the others, to make themselves at home. She showed an interest in my husband’s energy bars and I told her to go ahead and have one. She ate a half [...]